I just read about the 5 P’s of Preparation – talking about planning for a meeting (on page 53). But I realized as I was reading the 5 P’s that they also work pretty well for planning and discussing a technology project.

So – here are my modified 5 P’s of Techie Project Planning:

Purpose – what are the key objectives, why are we building/redesigning this?

Product – what’s the goal? What’s the end result? How will we know we were successful?

Participants – who needs to be involved? Who are we building this for?

Probable issues – are there any concerns? Any roadblocks or challenges in our way? How can we prevent those?

Process – What steps do we need to take to meet our goals?

What steps do you use when planning a technology or web project? Do they look similar to this? Let us know in the comments!